Pain and Things I Can't Explain

I am a curious kind of a person and  I often like to ask questions that have no answers. I know it sounds peculiar, but I'll give you an example. So, can you define time? 

For a second there, you might have felt confident, since time feels like something everyone knows like the back of their hands. Never the less,  you might not have come up with a concrete answer. The entire concept of time is as entangled as anything can get.  Even as you try to unravel it in order to find answers, you only end up with more questions and more knots. The fluidity of a simple word with no meaning, yet with a presence that can impact you in a profound manner, is confusing at its best and frustrating at its worst. 

A similar concept is that of Pain and Loss.

Unwitting Happiness

I am going through a rough patch in life right now. Things don't seem to go my way, a lot has changed, pieces don't fall in to place like they used to and over all I feel as if I'm hanging off a cliff.  So, only recently, I started writing a journal. Partly because I wanted to document my feelings but mostly because I needed an outlet for my growing frustration with everything around me.  

And now a month later, when I sat down to read my initial entries, I have come across a startling realization. 

Fragile Line

The Pawn

I started playing chess a couple of years ago but then completely abandoned it. Only recently, I picked it up again like a bad habit and realized something. So here's a thing about chess- collateral damage is inevitable. You can't expect to win the game with all your pieces intact. So chess is fundamentally the art of sacrificing the right piece at the right time just so at the end of the game, the king takes the glory for doing absolutely nothing at all.